BIO: Joseph SEYLER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 650 & 651.
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  JOSEPH SEYLER, a representative citizen of Brady township, formerly auditor of 
the township and member of the school board, resides on his valuable farm of 
ninety-five acres and carries on general agriculture.  He was born in Brady 
township, June 10, 1843, and is a son of John H. and Sarah Fisher (Kirk) Seyler.
  John H. Seyler was born is Center county, Pa., a son of Michael Seyler.  After 
the death of his mother the father moved to Clearfield county with his two sons, 
John H. and Joseph, locating in Brady township, one and one-half miles north of 
Luthersburg.  The father died there and Joseph subsequently died at Rockton, Pa.  
John H. Seyler bought the farm and later sold a part of it to H. Aurand, but the 
other part belongs to the estate, John H. Seyler dying at Luthersburg, at the 
age of eighty-two years.  He was survived for a short time by his widow, who 
died at the age of eighty-one years.  To them ten children had been born, the 
record being as follows:  James H., Joseph, Mary A. and Reuben, twins, Ferdinand 
and Isabella, twins, Austin, Lydia Jane, Elizabeth and Jack.
  Joseph Seyler assisted on the home farm and attended the country schools until 
seventeen years of age, when he learned the pottery trade and continued until he 
became a pottery owner, a member of the firm of Kirk, Porter & Seyler.  In 1875 
he bought the interests of his parents and conducted the business alone until 
1895 when he retired from it and settled then on the farm which he had bought in 
the meanwhile.  He has resided here ever since his marriage and has carried on 
the usual farm industries with satisfactory results.  A vein of coal is under 
his farm and it may prove a source of large income.
  Mr. Seyler was married June 26, 1870, to Miss Frances Brockbank, a daughter of 
Thomas and Isabella (King) Brockbank, natives of England.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Brockbank settled first at Philadelphia and moved from there into Elk county and 
later came to Clearfield county, where he died in 1900, at the age of seventy-
nine years.  The mother of Mrs. Seyler was born in 1824, and resides at DuBois, 
in the enjoyment of both physical and mental health.  To Mr. and Mrs. Brockbank 
the following children were born:  Frances Ann, who was born in England and was 
two years old when the family crossed the Atlantic Ocean to America, the journey 
consuming six weeks; Mary, who married Charles Waugh; Margaret, who is the widow 
of A. Pence, once sheriff of Clearfield county; S. T. and Joseph W., both of 
whom are deceased; and Isabella, who is deceased, was the wife of Austin Long.
  Mr. and Mrs. Seyler have eight children, namely:  Mary Emma, who married Jack 
M. Greismer, and they have four children - Frances, Lenora, Alice and 
Fredericka, all residing at DuBois; Bertha, who married Henry Kirk, residing at 
Luthersburg, and they have five children - Francis, Phebe, Russell, Fred and 
Richard; and Bernice, Olive, Eleazer, Lynn, Edgar and Harbison, who is the home 
farmer.  In politics Mr. Seyler is a Democrat.  He is a member of the Grange at 
Luthersburg.